Quotes About Mesquita

entering with a flourish of steel, rousting the hapless Mesquita out of his bunk. This had once been Cartagena's ship

Mesquita offered little resistance as the party of mutineers clapped him into irons and led him to the cabin of Gerónimo Guerra

He appointed his cousin, Álvaro de Mesquita, as judge presiding over an exhaustive trial.

Less is known about Magellan's mother, Alda de Mesquita

The name Mesquita, meaning mosque, was a common name among Portuguese conversos

but he kept berths for at least two others: Álvaro de Mesquita, a relative on his mother's side